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VK9, the project that aims to support Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit another milestone
14 Jan 2019 at 4:01 am UTC

Quoting: CybolicP.S. A fun anecdotal video is one from Linus Tech Tips (4K Gaming is Dumb [External Link]) where even some of their people couldn't spot any difference between 60/144/240Hz whilst playing Doom 2016.
Totally agree. Refresh rate > resolution. And optimum today is indeed 2560 x 1440 / 144 Hz (with adaptive sync and LFC). Hopefully Linux will support that soon.

DXVK 0.95 is out with various D3D10 stability fixes, CPU overhead reduction and more game fixes
13 Jan 2019 at 8:12 am UTC

Quoting: Przemko
Remasters work fine in DX11 mode already.
Hi, does it mean that remasered versions of Bioshock 1, 2 works out of the box with lutris?
I'm not using Lutris, so I have no idea. But if it can work with normal upstream Wine and dxvk, then I don't see why not.

DXVK 0.95 is out with various D3D10 stability fixes, CPU overhead reduction and more game fixes
13 Jan 2019 at 12:54 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wonder if this version makes Bioshock 1 and 2 works in DX10 mode.
Remasters work fine in DX11 mode already.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 10:30 pm UTC

“You will hear more about Navi in 2019,” said Dr. Lisa Su. “It’s a very active graphics cycle for us.”
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-ceo-lisa-su-ces-2019/ [External Link]

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 5:52 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: johndoe86xI was hoping AMD would knock it out of the park. They are competing on the 2080 level, but in order to bring these Nvidia-driven monopolistic prices back down so that the Nvidia xx60 lineup is actually budget/mainstream again this won't cut it.
Navi might offer something cheaper but still high end.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 5:50 pm UTC

Quoting: titiWell looks like this depends a bit on the GPU. The CPU internal Vega8 does not work since march 2018 and is not fixed yet..... Well it works in general and performance is very good with newest mesa drivers, BUT: you get several complete system freezes a day. At least this is the case for Ryzen5 2500U using ubuntu.
This is the reason I don't dare to try another AMD GPU at the moment.
You should avoid first generation Ryzens, including mobile ones. They have unfixable hardware issues (with some workarounds only). That's a known problem. Second generation mobile APUs are coming this year.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 3:35 am UTC

Sure, but I mean that 8 is still better than 4. 8 should be the today norm with some margin for the future. 16 is an overkill.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 3:26 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: mylkai bought a 1 year old RX580 8GB recently for only 150€. it is nice to have 8GB vram, but not even assassins creed needs it
dxvk quite clearly benefits from more VRAM. Not all games use it fully, but it can be used to avoid extra RAM to VRAM copying.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 3:15 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: mylkalets stick with steam statistics. (vega cards are not even listed) most of the steam users buy cheap cards. best price-performance.
And Polaris is perfect for this if you are using Linux.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 2:44 am UTC Likes: 2

I mean it's overhyped as in using dedicated hardware for it. But I guess the hype will drive it now.